Word: barter
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...will. Vote-hungry, it lavished money on farmers. Economy-minded (if not economy-willed), it pared the Relief outlay, tightened the rules, canceled projects it considered frittering. Stubborn, self-assertive, it would have taken away the President's monetary powers had he not been able to barter with enough venal Silver Senators. Weary of experiment, it harnessed TVA. But all these anti-Roosevelt actions were a gentle prelude to what came last week...
...wanderlusty young man who sought his fortune in the U. S. and Mexico, married a German girl living in Philadelphia, was recalled to Germany in 1933 by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the German financial wizard who was then beginning to steer the Third Reich into the economics of barter dealing and autarchy. Helmuth Wohlthat quickly rose in power and position until he became Field Marshal Hermann Göring's chief foreign exchange expert. Since last year he has controlled the entire German export industry...
...mined silver was the bill's third provision. The Treasury's old price was 64.64? per oz. Silver Senators demanded as high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...
Ambassador Joe Kennedy, for the U. S., President Oliver Frederick George Stanley of the Board of Trade, for Great Britain, last week signed in London a swap of raw materials which both parties insisted was totally different from the Dictators' market-ruining barter deals in that the U. S. British materials would be stored off the market for seven years, used by the Governments during that time only in case of war. The U. S. got 85,000 tons of rubber, about one-fifth of a peace year's consumption. Britain got 600,000 bales of cotton, almost...
1.Shell cheap " Travel Dollars" to forign tourists. 2. Barter American manufactures for Brazilian coffee. 3. Dispose of surplus cotton by dumping it abroad. 4. Institute a "Commodity Dollar." 5. Increase tax rates against corporations refusing to cooperate in the social security program...